How to edit gradient swatch

I make a gradient and drag it to the swatches palette and name it.
If I want to edit it I select it and make a change in the gradient palette but the instant I touch anything the gradient is no longer selected and my edits can only be saved by creating a new swatch. I will have too many swatches this way.
So how does one edit an existing gradient swatch?
Thanks for any help.

Yeah. Intuitive, isn't it? If you doubleClick a Grad Swatch, the Edit Swatch dialog opens, which does not provide Gradient sliders.
Edit the grad in the grad palette. Press and hold Alt while you drag it from the grad palette and drop it onto the existing Swatch.
JET

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This just doesnt seem right...
No, it doesn't. Welcome to Illustrator.
Note that Gradient Swatches cannot be set to Global.
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You can, however, drag an object containing a Gradient into the Graphic Styles palette. Then you can apply that Graphic Style, including its angle/spread to other objects. Then you can edit the Grad stops, angle, or spread of one of those objects and AltDrag that object onto the stored Graphic Style, and other objects with that Style applied will update accordingly.
Doing that, however, stores/updates all of the modified object's Appearances in the Style. So if the modified path also has a Stroke, AltDragging the modified object also causes the Stroke to be added to all other objects with that Style applied.
You can workaround that by applying the Gradient at a Group level, rather than at the object level, storing that as a Style, and only applying it to other Groups. That requires some careful planning. For example:
Draw three unfilled paths, each with a different Stroke.
Select each one individually and Group it, so you have three Groups, each containing one path.
Select one Group. Apply a Grad Fill to it.
Drag it to the Graphic Styles palette.
Select the other two Groups. Apply the Style.
WhitePointer: Select just the path inside one of the Groups. Give it a thick Stroke. Deselect.
Select the same Group. Gradient palette: alter the Grad.
AltDrag the modified Group and drop it onto the Style. The Grads of the other Groups update, but their (object-level) strokes are not wrecked.
Of course all that requires an awful lot of foresight and pre-planning.
Note that Illustrator is exceedingly confused, scattered, inconsistent, and utterly unintuitive.
JET

Gradient swatch

Hello.
How is it I can make a gradient swatch with a 90º angle (for example) a saved swatch?
Whenever I have saved a gradient swatch it does not allow me to specify (or save) the angle I would like the gradient to run.
So whenever I create a shape and apply a gradient swatch, it defaults to horizontal, never angled or vertical.
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Cheers, Matt

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First, let me say thanks for the posts. I really appreciate it.
I'm getting a Swatch Options window when I double click (I was trying that already) but it's greyed out.
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Part 2: How to edit the video with Windows Movie Maker
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